Scene from the Los Alamos County Clerk Naomi Maestas and her Clerk’s Office staff conducting voting tabulator logic and accuracy certification Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in the Clerk’s Warehouse at the Municipal Building. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scene from the Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office conducting voting tabulator logic and accuracy certification Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in the Clerk’s Warehouse at the Municipal Building. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

County Clerk’s Office News:

In accordance with NMSA 1-11-5, the Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office conducted voting tabulator logic and accuracy certification Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in the Clerk’s Warehouse at the Municipal Building, 1000 Central Ave. 

The cerified machines will be used for the 2024 Primary Election in June.

Applicable statute is as follows:

1-11- 5. Voting device; preparation; certification

A. Forty-two days before the election, the county clerk may begin to prepare, inspect, certify and seal electronic voting machines that are to be used in the election, and such preparation, inspection, certification and sealing shall continue until all machines are prepared, inspected, certified and sealed. The process of preparing, inspecting, certifying and sealing electronic voting machines shall be open to observation by the public.

B. The county clerk shall certify to the secretary of state and the county chair of each political party represented on the ballot the type and serial number of each voting machine to be used.

Sign outside the directing the public to the voting tabulator logic and accuracy certification held Tuesday, April 23, in the Clerk’s Warehouse at the Municipal Building. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com